Comment by chasd00
1 day ago
i gave a ppt of 4-5 slides laying out an approach to implementing a business requirement to a very junior dev. I wanted to make sure they understood what was going on so i asked them to review the slides and then explain it back to me as if i'm seeing them for the first time. What i got back was the typical overly verbose and articulate review from chatgpt or some other llm. I thought it was pretty funny that they thought it would work let alone be acceptable to do that. When i called them and asked, "now do it for real" i ended up answering a dozen questions but hung up knowing they actually did understand the approach.
> What i got back was the typical overly verbose and articulate review from chatgpt or some other llm. I thought it was pretty funny that they thought it would work let alone be acceptable to do that.
Did that end up working for you?
I had this same experience recently, and it floored my expectations for that dev, it just felt so wrong.
I made it abundantly clear that it was substandard work with comically wrong content and phrasings, hoping that he would understand that I trust _him_ to do the work, but I still later saw signs of it all over again.
I wish there was something other than "move on". I'm just lost, and scarred.